HAMILTON – Emphasizing her Hamilton roots tonight in her debate with her rival, Mayor Kelly Yaede said Council President Jeff Martin would be the second coming of former Mayor Glen Gilmore.

Martin, said the mayor, is a functionary of the Democratic Party establishment more than an organic product of the township, argued the mayor as she runs in what insiders describe as a painfully close election mostly defined by sharp elbowed tactics.

See Yaede’s full post-debate interview with InsiderNJ below: